A police officer has died in the line of duty after his vehicle was in a collision with another car in Kent. PC Bradley Corke, 27, died on Saturday, after he was critically injured in Farningham on Thursday evening. He and a colleague, who remains critically ill in hospital, were responding to an “immediate” call […]
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The number of meningitis cases in the UK’s outbreak has risen to 34, the UK Health Security Agency has said. The numbers include two – a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a sixth form pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham – who died from the virus in Kent last weekend.
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The number of meningitis cases following the outbreak in Kent has risen to 34, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The total has risen from 29 on Thursday. It includes two – a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a sixth form pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham –
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“We as a country, we’re not used to watching live stuff any more,” says Celeste Dring, comedian and one eleventh of the new Saturday Night Live cast. The This Country star is not wrong. Award shows, Comic Relief, the odd stunt soap episode aside, live TV entertainment – away from sport – is vanishingly rare.
Britain will return to colder weather with a chance of snow for some – only days after much of the UK saw a week of sunshine. Warmer weather brought the hottest day of the year so far on Wednesday, with temperatures peaking at 20C (68F) in some parts of the country. But temperatures across the
The first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the job says she feels “immense privilege” ahead of her official enthronement. The ceremony on Wednesday will see Dame Sarah Mullally take the Church of England’s top ministry as the 106th person to fill the role. More than 2,000 people are expected to
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The murder of Agnes Wanjiru hangs over the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK). The long-time training post is headquartered in the hometown of the 21-year-old single mother who was dumped in a hotel septic tank after being brutally murdered in 2012. The man accused of killing her, Robert Purkiss, was stationed in Nanyuki
Excavators working for the family of murder victim Muriel McKay have discovered a bone at a site where they were told her body was buried 57 years ago. A police forensics team is at the scene and beginning to analyse the bone, which is about nine inches long and a couple of inches wide. Her grandson
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Cabinet ministers have looked at a blueprint for how Labour could cut taxes on work by taking on “vested interests” profiteering from the cost of living crisis. The draft paper, by the Labour Growth Group and Good Growth Foundation, argues for a complete overhaul of Labour’s economic strategy and messaging to prevent a far-right government.
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Students in Kent could “incubate” meningitis and spread it to other parts of the UK, a health official has speculated as his “most likely” scenario. The number of cases in the county’s outbreak rose on Friday from 27 to 29, with 18 defined as confirmed and another 11 probable, according to the UK Health Security
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